Semi-automatic generation / customization of (all) confirmative legal argument chains (lacs) in a claimed invention&#39;s spl test, as enabled by its &#34;inventive concepts&#34;

ABSTRACT

A computer-implemented method of generating, customizing and providing “Legal Argument Chains, LAC.Z”, Z=1, 2, 3, . . . , by a “Innovation Expert System, IES”,
         this IES comprising at least one of a processor, a memory for storing the method&#39;s executable code for the processor, an I/O device in particular for human interaction with an IES user, and   a “User Interface Entity, UIE”, composed of UIE.Y, Y=1, 2, 3, . . . ,   at least one UIE.Y per LAC.Z,   a “Memory of Method Execution, MEMEX”, comprising a set of storage cells, “KR-UIE.Y” and “HI-UIE.Y”, and a “Global Bibliography, GloBi”, accessible to the processor, and   IES being capable of running in a config-mode or a realtime-mode, and   the IES further comprising—since before starting the execution of this method or input to the IES during its execution via an I/O device of the IES—the “Test Set-UP, TSU” comprising the test determinants:   a given “First Order Logic Finite Legal Norm, FFLN” in some given notation,   a given “Pair of a &lt;Technical Teaching FFLN , Reference Set FFLN &gt;, PTR FFLN ”—and leaving away the index “FFLN” here and for all terms in the rest of the claims, e.g. a “Pair of a &lt;Technical Teaching, Reference Set&gt;, PTR”—and   a given “PTR Data Structure, PTR-DS”
           with “Some Innovation in FFLN, SI” is the “Technical Teaching in FFLN, TT. 0 ” of the PTR and an FSTP-Test such that SI satisfies FFLN if and only if PTR passes this FSTP-Test and PTR-DS is the evidence that PTR satisfies FFLN by this FSTP-Test, and   
           a given “Arguable Subtest of this FSTP-Test of PTR, AST”,
           with AST stored by some KR-UIE.Y,   
           for use by an IES user or the IES when executing the method, this execution comprising repeated invocations of the executions of the Action A) in a config-mode or B) in a realtime-mode of the IES:   A) the IES automatically prompts the user—to enable a UIE.Y to present in B) a LAC.Z in realtime mode—to invoke the IES to
           i. automatically identify a KR-UIE.Y storing an AST to be transformed into a LAC.Z, and   ii. automatically identify an unused HI-UIE.Y, into which to input by a user—as part of Action A)—what the content and the representations shall be of LAC.Z, then supposed to represent the transformation of the AST on an I/O device of the IES, and to   iii. automatically input “LAC.Z::=&lt;KR-UIE.Y, HI-UIE.Y&gt; into the GloBi.   
           B) i. the IES automatically prompts the user to identify a LAC.Z in the GloBi, and
           ii. the IES automatically presents the LAC.Z as defined in A) iii.

I. INTRODUCTION

This SPL¹⁾ oriented patent application is a continuation in part of U.S.application Ser. No. 13/923,630 of “INVENTIVE CONCEPTS ENABLEDSEMI-AUTOMATIC TESTS OF PATENTS”

The US Supreme Court's Mayo decision [C] [1] requires describing claimedinventions by their “inventive concepts, in-Cs”² if they are emergingtechnology and hence “model based”—thus stimulating “advanced IT” [2]research on decision making in testing such claimed inventions underSPL, also holding if no model is needed or “invention” is replaced byany “(new) knowledge” [18, 19, 25].

Models are e.g.: The “ISO/OSI” model of telecommunications³⁾, “molecularbonding forces” models of nano-technology, “RNA/DNA” models of genetics[D], “Natural Language” models of advanced IT—some standardized, allimplicitly used by SPL precedents without being aware of this³⁾. Thephilosophical synonym of the term model is “paradigm”, the scientificone is “reference system”, e.g. “coordinate system”. Using amodel/paradigm often enables describing inventions alias (new) knowledgeprecisely, though it itself is not understood or defined precisely—aspracticed with mathematics' “axioms/theorems/proofs” and physics' “lawsof nature”, here with SPL's “claimed inventions”.

[25] provides, for a claimed invention, 10 “FSTP tests” <=> It satisfiesSPL iff it passes them all—mathematically proven [24, 25]. Here isprovided: These 10 FSTP tests may (semi-)automatically deliver allconfirmative “Legal Argument Chains, LACs”. This greatly facilitatesevery patent practitioner's decision making as to testing a claimedinvention under SPL, in particular if it is model based.

SPL may be generalized to any “First Order Logic Finite Legal Norm,FFLN”. A system based on a claimed invention's alias TT.0'sPTR^(FFLN)-DS [11], storing all FFLN-relevant functional andnonfunctional properties of TT.0, is a “Innovation Expert System, IES”,if its “User Interface Entity, UIE” enables its user to access all in-Cbased (legally nonredundant) “LAC^(FFLN)S” as to TT.0. Another FFLN,besides SPL, is “Substantive Copyright Law, SCL”, with PTR^(SCL)-DS ⊂PTR^(SPL)-DS [31, 35].

A PTR^(FFLN)-DS for a claimed invention embodies of the 10 FSTP testsall “Arguable Subtests, ASTs”, being the blueprints of all LACs. TheFFLN index will often be omitted in the sequel.

The UIE of a IES is made-up from UIE.Ys, Y=1, 2, 3, . . . , any UIE.Yhaving 3 “Layer-UIE.Ys, L-UIE.Ys”: Its knowledge representation“KR-UIE.Y”, its human interaction “HI-UIE.Y”, and its interactioncontrol “IC-UIE.Y”, in config-/realtime-mode operating separately resp.synchronously. A IES or its user invokes between them an “Interaction”by a HI-UIE.Y, which uses via its IC-UIE.Y its KR-UIE.Y, which in turnuses the knowledge stored by PTR-DS [11, 25]. Invoking a UIE.Y causesexecuting at least one of its “UIE.Y Steps”, which executes at least oneof its “UIE.Y Moves”.

A LAC.Z, Z=1, 2, 3, . . . , is presented by executing a UIE.Y inrealtime-mode. Thereby a LAC.Z may use a set of UIE.Ys, each presentingthis LAC.Z in different logics and/or representations, as customized bya IES user in config-mode—between which a user may toggle by invokingHI-UIE.Y. I.e.: In config-mode of the IES, any AST is semi-automaticallytransformable into its LAC.Z in several UIE.Ys in various logics and/ormultimedia presentations—as later needed by e.g. a judge, examiner,lawyer. In realtime-mode this user then may toggle between these UIE.Ys,highlighting aspects of this LAC.Z.

FIG. 1 shows a LAC.Z and its UIE.Ys comprising such sequential UIE.Yparts semi-automatically generated/customized, by generating/customizingfor them their HI-UIE.Ys, KR-UIE.Ys, and IC-UIE.Ys.

II. Mayo Refines the Phillips/Markman Claim Interpretation

Any national patent law, e. g. the 35 USC, comprises procedural sectionsas well as substantive ones, in 35 USC being the 4 §§101/102/103/112,here called its SPL¹⁾. Testing a claimed invention under SPL meanstesting it under the 10 FSTP tests alias the FSTP-Test [7, 25]. No otherFFLN is considered in this Section, as it is evident that itselaborations hold for all FFLNs (see Section III.2).

The presented invention has been induced primarily by the US HighestCourts' SPL precedents [A-M], especially the Supreme Court'sKSR/Bilski/Mayo decisions [A-C] implicitly prompting the CAFC to refineMarkman/Phillips [L, M] for enabling consistent and predictable patentprecedents for model based emerging technology inventions—i.e. to takeSPL precedents to a higher level of development.

By its Mayo decision the Supreme Court outlined this higher level ofdevelopment of SPL precedents: By requiring that it identifiesespecially of a model based claimed invention—its “inventive concepts”²⁾and ensures its claim('s scope) is not “preemptive”. I.e., Mayo:

-   -   α) confirms—by explicitly requiring to identify the “inventive        concepts” defining the claimed invention's (potentially)        patentable part—what already Phillips has required by: “The        inquiry into how a person of ordinary skill . . . understands a        claim term provides an objective baseline from which to begin        claim interpretation”. This “Phillips opening statement”—to        first “provide an objective baseline”—is often totally ignored,        though without this “baseline” logically this inquiry is        rationally impossible to answer (see i)).    -   β) additionally requires to ensure by all of these inventive        concepts that the claimed invention resp. its claim is •)        nonpreemptive (i.e. not an abstract idea only), •) not        non-patent-eligible (i.e. comprises at least one patent-eligible        inventive concept), and •) patentable (i.e. considering only all        its patent-eligible inventive concepts indicates its        patentability). All three checks are easily possible, once the        claimed invention's inventive concepts are identified—not        elaborated on here (but e.g. in [25]).

These two Mayo requirements imply: The so refined/post-Mayo claimconstruction is, compared to the classical one and also for a modelbased claimed invention, of legally substantially increased

-   -   conciseness, by first focusing on its inventive concepts        disclosing its by §101 required novelty and usefulness—i.e.        ignoring its claim's terms²⁾ disclosing legally misleading        technical aspects—and    -   coherence, by ensuring its §112, its §101, and its §§102/103        aspects are all “well-defined” [5, 25].

These clarifications added by the Mayo decision to claiminterpretation⁴⁾ unfortunately did not yet make it into the oftenquoted—increasingly questioned [21]—USPTO's “Broadest ReasonableInterpretation, BRI” guideline [14], originating pre Phillips. It thusstill preserves its uncertainties causing insinuation, some volitionallybroadening the meanings of claim terms of a claim were lawful, as USPTOpracticed³⁾—although Markman/Phillips and now also Mayo diametricallycontradict it⁴⁾. Because of this uncertainty, providing semi-automaticdecision support by LACs that a claimed invention does satisfy SPL isimpossible. Consistency and predictability of SPL precedents isimpossible to achieve, if the BRI guideline remains as it is and shouldmake it into SPL precedents. But this is very unlikely and its change isoverdue, as it multiply contradicts the Highest Courts SPL precedentsand there is no US law supporting this BRI guideline—which might renderthese then unavoidable contradictions lawful.

The paragraphs i)-iv) elaborate on some of these—already pre-Mayoexisting—contradictions between the current BRI guideline'suncertainties and the Highest Courts' Markman/Phillips decisions.

-   -   i) The BRI guideline starts its legal opinion by quoting, in its        “BRI opening statement”—as to the general requirement of        determining a claim term's meaning by the claimed invention's        specification—a statement from the Phillips decision in a        misleading way^(2), 4)). It “requires that . . . .) claims must        conform to the invention as set forth in . . . the specification        and the :) terms . . . in the claims . . . so that the meanings        of the terms in the claims . . . ”. The second part of this        quotation is misleading as it talks of the meaning of the “terms        in the claims”, i.e. of the resp. plain “claim's terms”        meanings^(2), 4)), not about “claim terms' meaning”.        -   This is a misrepresentation of the Phillips decision, which            makes this “BRI opening statement”        -   only after it has made many statements explicitly forbidding            such “mislead” kinds of term interpretations⁴⁾. By the            Phillips opening statement only “claim terms' meanings” are            material, which tie claim terms' interpretations tightly to            the claimed invention⁴⁾—as confirmed by Mayo—and        -   when it was in a different context than the here given one,            in which it is not an issue, whether a term interpretation            is mislead. Phillips made this statement as to “It is . . .            appropriate . . . , when conducting claim construction, to            rely heavily on the written description for guidance as to            the meaning of the claims.”. The Phillips decision's own            comment on this BRI opening statement of the BRI guideline            even clarifies: •) The USPTO itself has introduced it into            this discourse, not the CAFC, and •) the BRI opening            statement must in no way relax this requirement⁴⁾ to tie            claim terms' meanings tightly to defining the claimed            invention's “§101 usefulness”.    -   ii) Another—quite similar—up-front deficiency of the BRI        guideline is that the USPTO ignored the fundamental Phillips        opening statement (quoted in α)) and choose for its BRI        guideline the just explained BRI opening statement, which        insinuates a claim's terms need not be subject to the much        tighter limitations imposed on them by the Phillips opening        statement⁴⁾. This may be even disabling the limitations of the        claimed invention, as parts of the description without any        relation to the claimed invention may also support claim terms        and mislead the claim interpretation definitively away from the        claimed invention—in spite of its being clearly described by the        specification³⁾.        -   Summarizing i) and ii): Right from its beginning the BRI            guideline presents Markman/Phillips in an untenable as            totally misleading fashion.    -   iii) Immediately after its “BRI opening statement”, the BRI        guideline starts encouraging—perhaps feeling uneasy about the        CAFC's Phillips ruling, which refines the Markman rulings but        does not break them down into legally non-existing simplistic        whatsoever tests [25], as desired by many—all the old confusions        about claim interpretation by referring to a series of 5        pre-Phillips decisions (going back to 1969) and confronting the        reader again with the at that time occasionally ominous claim        interpretation, which to prevent for the future has been the        main purpose of the Markman/Phillips and now also Mayo decision!        It thereby indeed becomes “obscure” [21] by quoting from them a        most mysterious sentence, as forbidding: “. . . thereby [to]        narrow the scope of the claim by implicitly adding disclosed        limitations which have no express basis in the claim”. Though        its underlined part is indefinable it insinuates a known        thinking not authorized by but contradicting Phillips and thus        flushes the clarification provided by the Phillips thinking—as        it thus invites the indefiniteness of pre-Markman/Phillips/Mayo        claim interpretations.    -   iv) Removing uncertainties caused by the BRI guideline requires        also addressing another broad and surprising statement. It        quotes the CAFC: “The court held that the PTO is not required,        in the course of prosecution, to interpret claims in        applications in the same manner as a court would interpret        claims in an infringement suit.”. While this quotation        insinuates it were quite generally applicable, it seemingly was        not intended by the CAFC to be so understood. The BRI guideline        namely continues quoting the CAFC: “PTO applies to verbiage of        the proposed claims the broadest reasonable meaning . . . ” The        CAFC then rather intended it to be used by the USPTO only for        clarifying “below rationality” claims⁴⁾. Thus, claim        interpretation remains an issue of law.

To terminate this Section: Its elaborations on claim interpretation didnot serve for diving once more into the currently occurring paradigmrefinement in the US SPL precedents [25]—in particular into itsclarification of the terms/notions/meanings “inventive concept”,“creative concept”⁵⁾, “inventivity” and “usefulness” embodied by aclaimed invention^(6), 7)), its “not being an abstract ideaonly”/“(non)pre-emptiveness”, its “classical/pre-Mayo” vs.“refined/post-Mayo” claim construction, . . . , all required or impliedby the Supreme Court's Mayo decision, in beautiful clarity also byearlier German BGH precedents [6]—but for showing that SPL claimconstruction requires, because of its pitfalls especially with³⁾ modelbased claimed inventions, much more “problem awareness” than the currentBRI guideline owns.

III. Generating (All) Lacs for a Claimed Invention's Test Under SPL

This patent application's specification does not elaborate on thesimplest IESes here seeking patent protection—as their technicalimplementation is evident for the posc—but on the more sophisticatedones and discloses, how any AST of a claimed invention tested under SPLis transformed into its peer UIE.Y/LAC.Z. This is possible as the IES isPTR-DS based. This enables the IES, in its calibration in config-mode,automatically identifying all its AST.Zs and deriving from them all peerLAC.Zs, via at least one peer automatically generated UIE.Y per AST.Z.Per any so automatically generated LAC.Z the user may generate furtherUIE.Ys, all as outlined by the end of Section I. The below SPLelaborations hold for any FFLN, too, as explained by the end of thisSection III.

Performing, for a PTR-DS, this KR transformation of the set of all ASTsinto the set of all LACs—and customizing these—is evidently quitedifferent from and much simpler than the “general argument recognition”problem [30]: Here the arguments necessary and sufficient for decidingwhether an invention satisfies SPL are provided by their AST blueprints,i.e. its FSTP-Test, while nothing alike has been isolated first, there.Whether the knowledge addressed in [30] may be presented as aPTR^(FFLN)-DS is not an issue, here. If some additional limitations areacceptable, this should be possible, partially at least.

[25] has shown that a claimed invention satisfies SPL iff it passes theFSTP-Test alias the conjunction of all its 10 FSTP tests, FIG. 2.Thereby its passing of an FSTP test.m, 2≦m≦10, on top of a subset S″ ofTT.0's finite set of all its BED-in-Cs (=“Binary Elementary Disclosedinventive Concepts” [25]) implies that it passes all FSTP test.n, 1≦n<m,on top of S″. The inverse of this implication needs not to hold. Yet,all whatsoever such inverses evidently exist on top of exactly thosefinitely many sets S″, which are semi-automatically determinable byusing the FSTP-Test in explorative mode on all finitely many sets ofBED-cr/in-Cs—i.e. not only the inverses as to the 10 FSTP tests, butalso the inverses as to all ASTs, being all the lexically andsyntactically correct terms of the “program” of the FSTP-Test [25]. Forall ASTs hence also their semantics are evident, except those of theuser input into the PTR-DS. PTR dependent, only finitely many (fewhundred) ASTs exists. All these ASTs are executable on top of thesefinitely many and PTR-dependent BED-in-C subsets S″. All these ASTs arethe blueprints for all LACs. Other (legally nonredundant) LACs don'texist—though many different presentations of any LAC.

The generation/customization of LAC.Zs is outlined already by thisSection's first paragraph; the next bullet points add some more details,sometimes redundantly to what has been explained already.

-   -   Any UIE.Y for a LAC.Z may be composed in config-mode by an IES        user by its invoking the “HI-UIE.Z stub” provided by any IES        implementation, also for checking the result of preceding input,        or the interworking between presenting several UIE.Y invocations        of LAC.Z, or its interworking with other LAC.Z presentations.        Thereby any UIE may be composed by the user of one or several        sequential “UIE steps, UIESes”, whereby any UIES may be composed        by the user of one or several sequential “UIE moves, UIEMs”. Any        UIE.Y, UIES.Y, and UIEM.Y must be specified by the user—except        for the automatic ones, depending on the particular IES        implementation and/or configuration—as to the functionalities of        their 3 resp. HI-/IC-/KR-UIE.Ys, HI-/IC-/KR-UIES.Ys, and        HI-/IC-/KR-UIEM.Ys.    -   Providing the specifications by a user for one of the just        mentioned parts of L-UIEs is (basically) the same on any one of        the 3 Layers and for any L-UIE/UIES/UIEM, i.e. may be done        stereotypically.    -   Thereby the objective need not be limited to providing only        LAC.Zs for justifying the classical claim construction for a        claimed invention—being only LAC.Zs necessary for showing that        it has a chance to satisfy SPL—but all LAC.Zs sufficient to show        its satisfying SPL whatever is being questioned.    -   After semi-automatically transforming the PTR-DS and its user        input into all LAC.Zs in a multitude of logics details and user        interaction representations, these LAC.Zs may be invoked        automatically in realtime-mode e.g. by a word spotter of the        IES, and/or (semi-)automatically by an IES user, whereby this        invocation may even comprise specific UIE.Ys, too. Pertinent        ordinary skill knows, e.g. from IVR systems and their audio        pattern spotting and matching functionalities, how in principle        to (semi-) automatically identify in realtime LAC.Zs to be        instantly invoked, as the dialog just taking place generates an        appropriate pattern. Here such LAC.Z identification and        invocation processes may be substantially supported by the IES        calibration providing hints by issuing, in realtime-mode,        graphical and/or acoustic patterns compiled on the basis of a        commonly known automatic thesaurus generation, which leverages        on “AST patterns”.

FIG. 1 shows, how structurally a PTR-DS, therein an AST.Z, the peerLAC.Z, and for the latter several UIE.Zs—for simplicity here the formerUIE.Y are also denoted as UIE.Zs (see below)—fit together, i.e. the maininventive concepts embodied by the claimed invention. As explained aboveand in the remainder of the specification, any implementation of theclaimed invention is made up from the UIE.Zs, i.e. their L-UIE.Zs, L=HI,IC, or KR. They glue any AST.Z specific part of PTR-DS to exactly oneLAC.Z. LAC.Zs need not to, but may, exist in an implementation of theclaimed invention. I.e., the purpose of LAC.Zs is to convey theinformation stored in AST.Z to the user—to meet its explicit or implicitdemand—in a multimedia presentation on the I/O devices of the IES, whichis comprehensible and convenient for it and anytime controllable by it.Hence, LAC.Z presentations may exist in the very second they aregenerated by the IES, may be flighty/non-permanent—though they also maybe stored by the IES as kind of multimedia clips and then optionally beoutput from there. Thereby the value set of the index “Z” of an AST ingeneral is different from that of a UIE, and this is different ingeneral from that of its LAC. E.g.: This value set for ASTs may reflectany AST's location in the PTR-DS. For any AST its AST.Z-value would bemapped onto that index subset of all the LAC.Z-values, which identify aspecific LAC peer to this AST—evidently there would be several suchLACs, in general. And any such pair <AST.Z-value, LAC.Z-value> may beindexed by the index subset of all UIE.Z-values, which glue this AST tothis specific LAC. Thus, for any AST.Z-value there is a set of pairs<AST.Z-value, LAC.Z-value>, and for any such pair a set of triples<AST.Z-value, LAC.Z-value, UIE.Z-value>. These index sets, theirstructures into subsets, and their associations may be conveyed by theHI-UIEs of an implementation of the claimed invention to a user (andthen in an implementation's specific presentation) in total, or in part,or not at all. As to these index associations, it is of no concern thatany LAC.Z may be structured into its individual steps and moves thesemay be induced by the structure of its peer AST.Z or by a user's needsor by both. In any case this structure of a LAC.Z is reflected by anyone of its peer UIE.Z, i.e. by its L-UIE.Z, L=HI, IC, or KR. Moreprecisely: This structure is controlled by this IC-UIE and provides the“raster” to which a user's control activities as to a LAC.Z may refer,the “synchronization points” therein available to the user when workingwith this LAC.Z.

The preceding elaborations hold also for any PTR^(FFLN)-DS based IES,i.e. for any PTR in which all relations between finitely many legalnorms alias requirements to be met by PTR's TT.0 (e.g. the SPL or SCL),between the BED inventive concepts making up the TT.0, and betweenelements of both these types are describable by First Order Logic. Anysuch PTR^(FFLN)-DS would namely be based on a finite set of FSTP^(FFLN)tests (similar to the 10 FSTP tests of FIG. 2 and straightforward todevelop analogously)—just as the peer AST^(FFLN)s, LAC^(FFLN)s, andUIE^(FFLN)s.

IV. Explaining the Claimed Invention's Inventive Concepts and its Claims

The claimed invention is made-up^(2), 4)) from instantiations of •) theBED-in-C “KR-UIE” and “HI-UIE” as claimed by claims 1 and 15, and of •)further BED-in-C, e.g. the “IC-UIE”, as claimed by most dependentclaims. The meanings of these (binary elementary disclosed) inventiveconcepts alias claim terms^(2), 4)) [30, 34] are defined to be storagecells capable of storing specific relations, which are for KR-UIE:relations between items from the PTR-DS and IC-UIE instantiations,IC-UIE: relations between IC-UIE and HI-UIE instantiations, allrelations as explained with FIG. 1, HI-UIE: relations between HI-UIEinstantiations and items from the MEMEX.

Elaborating on the preceding Sections, additional details as to these 3“claim terms” alias “inventive concepts”^(2), 4)) of the claimedinvention—thus considering the claims also contributing in disclosingit/them, i.e. considering these claims as parts of this patentapplication's specification—are provided by the following list, notnecessarily in the sequence as they are used in these claims. Also,functionalities immediately recognizable from the claims' wordings,remain without further comments.

-   -   The complexity of the claimed invention's independent claim 1        resp. 16—for the sake of its comprehensibility its wording does        not comprise the technical details known by the person of        pertinent skill and creativity, posc—comes along with the        advantage that the technical additional functionality comprised        by the claimed invention's dependent claims is simple.    -   The term/notion “technical teaching 0, TT.0” [6, 7, 11] may        stand for the claimed invention disclosed in a patent's        (application's) specification—the latter supposed to comprise        also this claimed invention's claim—or for any other compilation        of knowledge.    -   The characteristics of a “model based” claimed invention alias        TT.0 is explained in [25].    -   For clarifications of the terms/notions “inventive concept,        in-C”, “preemption”, . . . see^(2), 4)) [5, 8, 25, 34].    -   Advanced IT knows that the input and commands provided by the        user to the claimed invention just as the latter's output to the        user must have, for being understandable by both, some before        given—i.e. a priori defined or by the execution of the claimed        invention—alphabet(vocabulary)/syntax/semantics/pragmatics.        Parts or all of them may dynamically change during the claimed        invention's execution, under the control by a user of the        IES^(2), 4)).    -   The term/notion “user” may stand for several persons using the        IES.    -   The term/notion “legal argument chain, LAC” stands for what is        commonly understood by any posc. Its broad meaning is not        limited in any other way. The index “Z” identifying a particular        LAC.Z (alias instantiation Z of LAC) may belong to any—by the        system implementation at issue initially given—set of “LAC        identifiers”, which potentially is structured and/or expandable        by this system's execution.    -   There are basic UIE instantiations provided by an IES on top of        a PTR-DS—the claimed invention of which is to be tested for        satisfying SPL—which are available to a user all the time        (unless locked by a user). By means of them a user may define        and input for integration into and for execution by the IES a        broad range of additional UIE instantiations for configuring the        UIE between a user and the IES as desired by a user, for        performing the above customization. Namely such as to facilitate        for a user using the functionality provided by a PTR-DS based        IES.    -   Whether a UIE instantiation is to be integrated or executed is        determined by the mode the claimed invention is in at input        time—whereby this input of/to the UIE instantiation itself may        set the mode or it may have been set prior to terminating this        input, e.g. by another user, whereby conflicts may be resolved        by the implementation of the claimed invention.    -   An input or invocation may refer to only a step or move within a        UIE instantiation.    -   The HI-UIEs' information representations of a LAC to a user, in        response to the latter's enquiry about some detail of the        PTR-DS, or a FSTP test, or a LAC, or a UIE instantiation        represents the kernel of the claimed invention. It serves the        purpose the claimed invention has been invented for: To enable        this LAC to react, in its response to being called, as if the        response were provided by an all-knowing person.    -   To this end, this response must be represented, if acoustically        then as spoken by that person and if graphically then as being        drawn by it. To this end, the claimed invention enables a user        first to acoustically and/or graphically input fragments of the        arguments it later intends to present in its personalized        fashion, then to combine these fragments into what it considers        to be a complete legal argument chain, and finally to invoke the        automatic reproduction of this argument. Responding this way to        a listener/viewer of this LAC—to a question it or somebody else        had input to the claimed invention before as a query—then would        appear to the listener/viewer as a personal and potentially        multimedia announcement/information of a smart IMR system        (IMR=interactive multimedia response). This “user        personalization” of the behavior of the claimed invention's IMR        subsystem would comprise that they may cooperate in jointly        presenting a complex LAC by alternatively speaking or reacting        on interposed questions by answering them immediately—whereby        such prompt reactions may be configured to be interventions        and/or accompanying illustrations, always under user control.    -   Important thereby is that the claimed invention would execute        much of this whole process automatically—i.e. of: α) recognizing        what enquiry is being asked, β) identifying the set of possible        answers, γ) compiling from the input fragments complete        sequences of multimedia outputs controlled by HI-UIEs, which        represent these answers, and finally δ) recognize when to output        which of these replies. Evidently any one of these steps α)-δ)        may require some interactions with a user. These would be        different when invoking a UIE instantiation in different modi,        e.g. i) in explorative/calibrating mode, ii) in reply preparing        mode, and iii) in reply mode, whereby this invocation may in        between interact with the user iv) in some elaboration mode and        thereafter v) in some consolidation mode—all these options not        touching the kernel of the invention and not seeking patent        protection.    -   The claimed invention may provide “prototypes” of all such user        interactions α)-γ) in i)-v), as well as macros for the        stereotypically recurring parts of them, such as repeating some        passage in other words or particularly slowly, or skipping        momentarily boring details, or prompting a user to continue, or        asking for confirmation the understanding of the just said, or .        . . . But, LACs may also be presented by their default        configurations coming with any FSTP-Test of a claimed invention.        These prototype interactions are fine for        inputting/defining/configuring specific UIE instantiations by a        user for its personalization of the IES and/or its LACs for        adapting them to the specificities of the actual PTR-DS under        test—but normally these prototypes' functioning is far from what        the USER ideally would like to use when actually testing a model        based claimed invention for its satisfying SPL.    -   Exceeding of what claim 1 describes for Action B), the IES        implementation may comprise some exemplary LAC.Zs for test or        demonstration purposes.    -   While claim 1 knows only a static 1:1 relation between an AST.Z        and its transformation into a LAC.Z, claim 2 enables a user to        dynamically establish and modify n:m relations between AST.Ys        and their transformations into a LAC.Ys.    -   A determinant of the TSU is any syntactically correct part of        the TSU.    -   The content of a human interaction, i.e. its semantics, is        currently transparent to the IES unless it is automatically        derived by the IES from the AST at issue, occurring for very        simple ASTs only.

V. The Claimed Invention Satisfies the US SPL

The claimed invention satisfies the 35 USC §§101, 102, 103, and 112 asit passes all 10 FSTP tests of FIG. 2 [5, 6]. It namely passes⁸⁾

-   -   FSTP test 1: Technically, the claimed invention as of claims 1        and 16 and of their dependent claims is made-up by at least the        two or more BED-cr-Cs disclosed by Sections III, each        contributing to enabling to an increasing extent an IES user to        customize its LAC^(FFLN)-UIE. Hence, disaggregating them is        obsolete, i.e. performing the FSTP test 1 is trivial.    -   FSTP test 2: These three UIEs are lawfully disclosed by Sections        III, IV, and the following claims; hence they are even the in-Cs        of the claimed invention required by Mayo. Moreover: The        FSTP-Test of the here claimed invention uses the same set of        these three cr-Cs/in-Cs.    -   FSTP test 3: None of the claims comprises a        “means-plus-function” wording.    -   FSTP test 4: The disclosures of the three UIEs and hence of the        claimed invention—in Sections III, IV, and in the following        claims—are enabling.    -   FSTP test 5: The three UIEs are evidently independent.    -   FSTP test 6: The three UIEs are posc-nonequivalent, as there is        no prior art for them.    -   FSTP test 7: The claimed invention is evidently novel and        nonobvious⁹⁾.    -   FSTP test 8: The claimed invention passes the NAIO test, as the        problem P it is invented to solve is identified in Section I,        and if one of its 3 in-Cs is left away it does not solve        it—i.e., the claimed invention is not an abstract idea only.    -   FSTP test 9: The claimed invention is evidently not a natural        phenomenon only; the contrary is true: none of its 3 in-Cs        represents a natural phenomenon.    -   FSTP test 10: The claimed invention is not idempotent, because        of the FSTP tests 7 and 9.

Hence, as mentioned/explained above, the here claimed inventionsatisfies the US SPL.

Finally, it is worthwhile noticing that [25] has shown that this isguaranteed to be true if and only if the claimed invention passes all 10FSTP tests—which in total even comprise 16 tests (see FIG. 1 in [25])—ofwhich the classical claim construction only performs 6 ones, as shown byFIG. 1 in [25]. To put it into the context at issue here, the classicalclaim construction is an abstract idea only of a claim construction, asit is an invention which does not solve the problem set out to be solvedby it, namely to determine whether a claimed invention satisfies the USSPL or not—though one might argue that the classical claim constructionnever has been set out to achieve this solution.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a LAC.Z and its UIE.Ys comprising such sequential UIE.Yparts semi-automatically generated/customized, by generating/customizingfor them their HI-UIE.Ys, KR-UIE.Ys, and IC-UIE.Ys.

FIGS. 2 a-2 b shows an illustration of the 10 FSTP tests.

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Foot-/Endnotes

¹While today differences still exists between the “Substantive PatentLaws, SPLs” of the US and other regions/nations, e.g. the EU with itsEPC-SPL, these should disappear soon, as internationally harmonizingSPLs is politically less controversial and economically highlybeneficial for all parties as being “Highest Courts” proof. Many similarprocesses occurred in the past, e.g. with the various nationalaccounting procedures of public companies, today harmonized by the IFRS(International Financial Reporting Standard), accepted worldwide.²TheMayo decision uses the term “inventive concept” only three times andoften omits or replaces it by other terms, e.g. in “. . . do the patentclaims add enough <inventive concepts> to . . . ”, or “. . . unless theprocess has additional features <alias: inventive concepts> that . . .”, or “What else <inventive concept> is there . . . ”, or “Those steps<alias: inventive concepts> included . . . ”. The synonyms in Mayo forthe term “inventive concept” tell: An inventive concept may show-up, ina claimed invention's specification, by a synonym or only implicitly.

A term together with its meaning is a “notion”. A notion hence definesits term's meaning. In Mayo a notion is called an “inventive concept”⁵⁾,if its meaning has the pragmatics to serve for defining the claimedinvention's “§101 usefulness”, this pragmatics being disclosed by theclaimed invention's specification (unless known a priori by the personof ordinary skill and creativity). A notion, and hence also the notion“inventive concept” may be represented by different terms (=synonyms, asthe preceding paragraph exemplifies).

In the above Phillips opening statement, the “claim term” is a “claim'sterm” representing an inventive concept⁴⁾. Other “claim's terms”, nothaving that pragmatics, are no inventive concepts. The Phillips decisiondeals only with claim terms⁴⁾ alias inventive concepts. For convenienceit mostly leaves away the leading “claim”. But not in its openingstatement, i.e. its “baseline” statement, elaborate on above in α) andbelow in i).

Just for information: A term in a claim may also represent two differentmeanings, in particular one meaning with and the other meaning withoutinventive concept pragmatics, it then can be seen as a claim term or asa plain claim's term—the latter representing a legally inadmissible as“contra Phillips/Mayo” meaning.

The BRI guideline ignores this distinction and thus is often veryconfusing, for not to say: right away misleading. It thus invites themisunderstanding that a claim's term always is a claim term, whichunreasonably broadens the meaning of the resp. claim³⁾. Mayo bars thismisunderstanding by introducing the term “inventive concept” as synonymto “claim term”. For “inventive concept” being legal items—not factualones—see [5, 7, 11]. ^(3—)This real life example for the (mis)use of theBRI guideline is provided by a §103 attack on the author's '902 patentU.S. Pat. No. 7,145,902 and its claim 68, which confirmed to be based onthe BRI guideline). It then also shows that and how the specification ofa model based claimed invention is always facilitated by its implicitmodel.

The volitional broadening of the meanings of the '902 claim terms isachieved as follows. While

-   -   claim 68 starts with limiting this claim's scope to i) a        telephone call, and then therein focuses on ii) a very specific        and novel '902 control signal for iii) changing-over, whereby        the iv) packet-switching network usually provides—the '902        priority date is 1995—a bandwidth of only approx. 9.6 kbit/s (as        the '902 specification states up-front), the    -   §103 attack determines these 4 claim 68 terms' meanings        independently of its claimed invention⁴⁾. It        -   a. determines the meanings of the terms            “packet-/line-switching networks” a “telephone call” totally            ignoring that the claimed invention must get along with            approx. 9.6 kbit/s for the telephone call's communications            connection, the resp. compression to be performed within the            '902 switch. Hence, its general discussion of these two            terms has nothing to do with the claimed invention of claim            68.        -   b. The attack lumps the two terms “control signal” and            “changing-over” together and argues their meanings are the            commonly known broad ones—although the '902 specification            clearly describes for both these terms their very specific            and novel meanings necessary for making the claimed            invention work.

Two final comments on this untenable attack: 1.) Today the claimedinvention of claim 68 is often called VoIP telephony. 2.) Based on the'902 specification the USPTO recently granted 3 more patents to theauthor.

The '902 patent also is a nice example of its claimed invention beingmodel based—a common feature of practically all emerging technologyinventions, see Section I—and how therein their models are used forprecisely describing the resp. claimed invention.

In the '902 case, as always in telecommunications, the underlying modelis the ISO/OSI Reference Model and internationally standardized (whilemost specifications of model based claimed inventions use their own orsome group's agreed on and hence non-standardized models). As is typicalwith reference systems alias paradigms alias models, they prescribe onlycommonly known features of the basic structures and functioning of theobjects they support modeling, i.e. never describe all their technicaldetails. Here the subject matter object modeled is a “communicationsconnection”. Some commonly known features of a communications connectionare that it is an end-system-to-end-system connection alias associationon this model's layer 7, whereby any association exists as soon as itsassociated entities are known. An existing communicationsconnection/association is routed over many entities, may be routed overdifferent networks, and its protocol data units, PDUs (here IP-packets)may be monitored by such entities—as used by the '902 specification,enabled by the model underlying the '902 claimed invention.

And similarly is a DNA invention supported by a model representing somecommon DNA knowledge. ⁴ A patent specification may disclose severalinventions. A first consequence is that a claim seeking patentprotection for one of them must identify which one of them, which thenis called this claim's “claimed invention”.

While this was recognized long a time ago, it is only the Phillipsdecision that explicitly addressed the second consequence as explainedin ²⁾, namely to assure in a claim interpretation—when determining themeaning of a claim explicitly used by a term in this claim or implicitlyby its notion's indispensability for the functioning of the claimedinvention, in both cases as enablingly/lawfully disclosed by thisspecification ex—and/or implicitly [25], all 4 combinations covered(ex—and/or implicitly) by the elaborations of Phillips and now evenenforced by Mayo²⁾—the meanings of the terms/notions this claimex—and/or implicitly uses are determined such as those needed by thedisclosed claimed invention. Phillips hence calls such terms/notions ofthis claim—analogously to its “clamed invention”—as “claim terms”²⁾, inparticular in its “opening statement” (quoted above) and several moreplaces, though also often skipping the leading “claim”, probably byconvenience/evidence. Markman did not yet address this intricacy inclaim construction, i.e. nowhere talks of “claim terms”, evidentlyassuming the simple case that a patent specification comprises noopportunity for this mismatch or that the reader is problem awareenough. That the USPTO's BRI guideline does not own this problemawareness is shown by³⁾—where it does not bar determining the claimedinvention's key meanings totally independent of the claimed invention. ⁵The mathematical definition of the notion “inventive concept”, asprovided earlier [5-11], is a dramatic simplification of the “technical”much more powerful notion of “concept” in DL or KR [2-4], as it is herecustomized to the current needs of modeling FFLN/SPL precedents.Inventive concepts need to model the properties of only constants (beingthe elements of the claimed invention), nothing else, while in DL or KRconcepts serve for modeling how to recursively build compound conceptsout of simpler concepts. By contrast, modeling the Highest Courts' SPLprecedents needs only a simple disaggregation of compound inventiveconcepts into elementary ones [5-11]. But legally this notion of“inventive concept” is very powerful, as shown by [25, 36].⁶ The“inventivity” of a claimed invention, i.e. embodied by it, isrepresented by all its invented—hence by this inventivitycreated—properties of all its elements, thus making-up its totalusefulness⁷).⁷ The “usefulness” of a claimed invention, i.e. embodied byit, is just as its inventivity, represented by this claimed invention'stotal set of properties (in patent language: “limitations”). Thus, fromthe definition of its inventive concepts (namely: to make-up thisclaimed invention) follows that any one of them contributes—by itscontribution to the total set of properties/limitations of the claimedinvention—equally to the claimed invention's usefulness, as required by§101 and its interpretation by the Supreme Court's Mayo decision.

The Mayo decision invokes, for its refined claim construction for aclaimed invention, this additional “contribution to its usefulness”minded view at its claimed invention's inventive concepts which nothingchanges with their hitherto only “contribution to its total limitations”minded meanings, remaining true for the classical claim construction forit. It is this additional “contribution to its usefulness” mindedpragmatics of the inventive concepts, by which Mayo achieves theconciseness and coherence of its refined claim construction. ⁸ Due tothe novelty of this part of the specification, many details—also evidentones—are briefly explained in this Section or its below footnotes. In afuture patent application trivial such explanations would besuperfluous. If this future patent application were supported by itsPTR-DS as disclosed by [11]—or even by a SES as disclosed by this patentapplication then all such explanations, also the trivial ones, would bepresented to a user on its request in realtime, as embodied by thePTR-DS's as AST or FSTP test respectively by the claimed invention, i.e.its SES, as this AST's peer LARC.⁹ That performing the NANO test on thehere claimed invention determines its creative height to be 3 overpertinent ordinary skill and creativity (“posc”)—given that there is noprior art. And in [5, 6] is shown that already a claimed invention'screative height

-   -   1 warrants its novelty as by posc and by a prior art document        one of it in-Cs is not anticipatable, and its    -   2—anyway 3—warrants its nonobviousness as by posc and by a        combinations of prior art documents 2 resp. 3 of its in-Cs are        not anticipatable. ¹⁰ For the NANO test see [5]; its detailed        explanation may be found in [6].¹¹ For the NAIO test also see        [5]. As it embodies intricacies, its steps are here repeated:        -   a automatically prompts the USER to state the usefulness of            the claimed invention—denoted as “the problem, P” (to be)            solved by it^(2), 3)) over S′;        -   b automatically prompts the USER to identify DIS^(NAIO)(S′,            P)::={doc.0-MUIs describing/disclosing P (to be) solved by            it over S′};        -   c automatically <DIS^(NAIO)(S′, P)> S′;        -   d automatically prompts the USER, ∀BED-cr-C0k^(n′)∈S′,            through any doc.0-MUI, for justifying by JUS^(NAIO)(S′, P,            BED-cr-C0k^(n′)) that the latter is indispensable in the            claimed invention for enabling it to solve P; (as explained            in [5])        -   e automatically <{JUS^(NAIO)(S′, P,            BED-cr-C0k^(n′))|∀BED-cr-C0k^(n′)∈S′}>Dis^(NAIO)(S′, P).

What is claimed is: 1) A computer-implemented method of generating,customizing and providing “Legal Argument Chains, LAC.Z”, Z=1, 2, 3, . .. , by a “Innovation Expert System, IES”, this IES comprising at leastone of a processor, a memory for storing the method's executable codefor the processor, an I/O device in particular for human interactionwith an IES user, and a “User Interface Entity, UIE”, composed of UIE.Y,Y=1, 2, 3, . . . , at least one UIE.Y per LAC.Z, a “Memory of MethodExecution, MEMEX”, comprising a set of storage cells, “KR-UIE.Y” and“HI-UIE.Y”, and a “Global Bibliography, GloBi”, accessible to theprocessor, and IES being capable of running in a config-mode or arealtime-mode, and the IES further comprising—since before starting theexecution of this method or input to the IES during its execution via anI/O device of the IES—the “Test Set-UP, TSU” comprising the testdeterminants: a given “First Order Logic Finite Legal Norm, FFLN” insome given notation, a given “Pair of a <Technical Teaching^(FFLN),Reference Set^(FFLN)>, PTR^(FFLN)”—and leaving away the index “FFLN”here and for all terms in the rest of the claims, e.g. a “Pair of a<Technical Teaching, Reference Set>, PTR”—and a given “PTR DataStructure, PTR-DS” with “Some Innovation in FFLN, SI” is the “TechnicalTeaching in FFLN, TT.0” of the PTR and an FSTP-Test such that SIsatisfies FFLN if and only if PTR passes this FSTP-Test and PTR-DS isthe evidence that PTR satisfies FFLN by this FSTP-Test, and a given“Arguable Subtest of this FSTP-Test of PTR, AST”, with AST stored bysome KR-UIE.Y, for use by an IES user or the IES when executing themethod, this execution comprising repeated invocations of the executionsof the Action A) in a config-mode or B) in a realtime-mode of the IES:A) the IES automatically prompts the user—to enable a UIE.Y to presentin B) a LAC.Z in realtime mode—to invoke the IES to i. automaticallyidentify a KR-UIE.Y storing an AST to be transformed into a LAC.Z, andii. automatically identify an unused HI-UIE.Y, into which to input by auser—as part of Action A)—what the content and the representations shallbe of LAC.Z, then supposed to represent the transformation of the AST onan I/O device of the IES, and to iii. automatically input“LAC.Z::=<KR-UIE.Y, HI-UIE.Y> into the GloBi. B) i. the IESautomatically prompts the user to identify a LAC.Z in the GloBi, and ii.the IES automatically presents the LAC.Z as defined in A)iii. 2) Acomputer-implemented method according to claim 1), with MEMEX containingalso a set of storage cells, “IC-UIE.Y”, which comprises after A)ii. astep A)iii.: “iii. an unused IC-UIE.Y and inputting into it what controlcommands as to presenting on an I/O device of the IES the content andthe representations stored in ii. shall be available to the IES or a IESuser, anytime while this LAC.Z is invoked in realtime-mode”, making theprevious step A)iii. become step A)iv., “iv. automatically input“LAC.Z::=<KR-UIE.Y, HI-UIE.Y, IC-UIE.Y> into the GloBi”. 3) Acomputer-implemented method according to claim 1), whereby the action B)is expanded by “, whereby when and while executing this presentation,the IES or an IES user may invoke anytime a control command as ofA)iii.” 4) A computer-implemented method according to claim 1), wherebya LAC.Z may be sub-structured into the components “Legal Argument ChainSteps, LACS.Z.S^(Z.S”,) 1≦Z.S≦ZS, which each may comprise “LegalArgument Chain Moves, LACM.Z.M^(Z.S.M”,) 1≦Z.S.M≦ZSM (ZS≧0 and ZSM≧0given by a method's implementation), any UIE.Z.Y, Y=1, 2, 3, . . . ,peer to a LAC.Z is sub-structured exactly the same way into thecomponents UIES.Z.Y.S^(Z.S), UIEM.Z.Y.M^(Z.S.M), and this sub-structuremay be determined by the IES or an IES user and any operation defined inA) and B) applies to all components of any LAC.Z and its UIE.Z.Ys. 5) Acomputer-implemented method according to claim 1), whereby at least oneAST may be completely input by the IES user, or automatically derived bythe IES from a PTR-DS part identified by a IES user, or automaticallyderived by the IES from a PTR-DS by determining all the ASTs itcomprises. 6) A computer-implemented method according to claim 1),whereby the PTR-DS or at least one of its determinants may be completelyinput by the IES user, or partially input by the IES user andautomatically complemented by the IES, or automatically suggested by theIES. 7) A computer-implemented method according to one of the claim 2),whereby the functionality of an HI-UIE.Y or IC-UIE.Y or KR-UIE.Y may bedetermined: completely by input provided by the IES user, or partiallyinput by the IES user and automatically complemented by the IES, orautomatically suggested by the IES. 8) A computer-implemented methodaccording to one of the claim 2), whereby the functionality of anHI-UIE.Y or IC-UIE.Y or KR-UIE.Y may be based on relations between partsof different instantiations of HI-UIE.Ys or IC-UIE.Ys or KR-UIE.Ys. 9) Acomputer-implemented method according to claim 1), whereby FFLN is a“Substantive Patent Law, SPL” or a “Substantive Copyright Law, SCL”. 10)A computer-implemented method according to claim 1), whereby FFLN is aconjunction of FFLNs. 11) A computer-implemented method according toclaim 1), whereby its FFLN is augmented by the user preserving itsfinite FOL property. 12) A computer-implemented method according toclaim 1), whereby the representation of the user input provided to theIES may be identified by the user by either selecting such arepresentation from a given set of such representations or by describingit in a given notation. 13) A computer-implemented method according toclaim 1), whereby the output representation to be used by the IES may beidentified by the user by either selecting such a representation from agiven set of such representations or by describing it in a givennotation. 14) A computer-implemented method according to claim 1),whereby the input into a HI-UIE.Y is automatically generated by the IESwhat the content and the representations shall be of the LAC.Z,representing part of the transformation of a given AST on an I/O deviceof the IES—whereby said representation is given by the IESimplementation or to the IES by a user in some given notation. 15) Acomputer-implemented method according to claim 11), whereby its ActionA) is begun by “the IES automatically prompts the user—to enable UIE.Ysto present in B) for any AST in PTR-DS its peer automatically generatedLAC.Z in realtime mode—to invoke o. the IES to repeatedly automaticallyidentify in PTR-DS another non-translated AST and execute with iti.-iii.:” 16) A computer-implemented system of generating, customizingand providing “Legal Argument Chains, LAC.Z”, Z=1, 2, 3, . . . , by a“Innovation Expert System, IES”, this IES comprising at least one of aprocessor, a memory for storing the method's executable code for theprocessor, an I/O device in particular for human interaction with an IESuser, and a “User Interface Entity, UIE”, composed of UIE.Y, Y=1, 2, 3,. . . , at least one UIE.Y per LAC.Z, a “Memory of Method Execution,MEMEX”, comprising a set of storage cells called “KR-UIE.Y”, “HI-UIE.Y”,and “IC-UIE.Y” and a “Global Bibliography, GB”, accessible to theprocessor, and IES being capable of running in a config-mode or arealtime-mode, and the IES further comprising—since before starting theexecution of this method or input to the IES during its execution via anI/O device of the IES—the “Test Set-UP, TSU” comprising the testdeterminants: a given “First Order Logic Finite Legal Norm, FOLLN aliasFFLN” in some given notation, a given “Pair of a <TechnicalTeaching^(FFLN), Reference Set^(FFLN)>, PTR^(FFLN)”—and leaving away theindex “FFLN” here and for all terms in the rest of the claims, e.g. a“Pair of a <Technical Teaching, Reference Set>, PTR”—and a given “PTRData Structure, PTR-DS” with “Some Innovation in FFLN, SI” is the“Technical Teaching in FFLN, TT.0” of the PTR and an FSTP-Test such thatSI satisfies FFLN if and only if PTR passes this FSTP-Test and PTR-DS isthe evidence that PTR satisfies FFLN by this FSTP-Test, and a given“Arguable Subtest of this FSTP-Test of PTR, AST”, with AST stored bysome KR-UIE.Y, for use by an IES user or the IES when executing themethod, this execution comprising repeated invocations of the executionsof the Action A) in a config-mode or B) in a realtime-mode of the IES:A) automatically prompting the user by the IES to enable a UIE.Y topresent a LAC.Z in realtime mode, namely by identifying i. a KR-UIE.Ystoring an AST to be transformed into a LAC.Z, ii. a HI-UIE.Y andinputting into it what the content and the representations shall be ofthe LAC.Z, representing the transformation of the AST on an I/O deviceof the IES, iii. input into GB “LAC.Z::=<KR-UIE.Y, HI-UIE.Y>. B)automatically prompting the user by the IES to identify a LAC.Zcomprised by GB and then present LAC.Z as defined in A)iii. 17) Acomputer-implemented system according to claim 16), comprising after ii.a step iii.: “iii. a IC-UIE.Y and inputting into it what controlcommands as to presenting on an I/O device of the IES the content andthe representations stored in ii. shall be available to the IES or a IESuser, anytime while this LAC.Z is invoked in realtime-mode”, making theprevious step iii. become step iv., “iv. input into GloBi“LAC.Z::=<KR-UIE.Y, HI-UIE.Y, CI-UIE.Y>. 18) A computer-implementedsystem according to claim 16), whereby the action B) is expanded by “,whereby when and while executing this presentation, the IES or an IESuser may invoke anytime a control command as of A)iii.” 19) Acomputer-implemented system according to claim 16), whereby a LAC.Z maybe sub-structured into the components “Legal Argument Chain Steps,LACS.Z.S^(Z.S)”, 1≦Z.S≦ZS, which each may comprise “Legal Argument ChainMoves, LACM.Z.M^(Z.S.M)”, 1≦Z.S.M≦ZSM (ZS≧0 and ZSM≧0 given by amethod's implementation), any UIE.Z.Y, Y=1, 2, 3, . . . , peer to aLAC.Z is sub-structured exactly the same way into the componentsUIES.Z.Y.S^(Z.S), UIEM.Z.Y.M^(Z.S.M), and this sub-structure may bedetermined by the IES or an IES user and any operation defined in A) andB) applies to all components of any LAC.Z and its UIE.Z.Ys. 20) Acomputer-implemented system according to claim 16), whereby at least oneAST may be completely input by the IES user, or automatically derived bythe IES from a PTR-DS part identified by a IES user, or automaticallyderived by the IES from a PTR-DS by determining all the ASTs itcomprises. 21) A computer-implemented system according to claim 16),whereby the PTR-DS or at least one of its determinants may be completelyinput by the IES user, or partially input by the IES user andautomatically complemented by the IES, or automatically suggested by theIES. 22) A computer-implemented system according to one of the claim17), whereby the functionality of an HI-UIE.Y or IC-UIE.Y or KR-UIE.Ymay be determined: completely by input provided by the IES user, orpartially input by the IES user and automatically complemented by theIES, or automatically suggested by the IES. 23) A computer-implementedsystem according to one of the claim 17), whereby the functionality ofan HI-UIE.Y or IC-UIE.Y or KR-UIE.Y may be based on relations betweenparts of different instantiations of HI-UIE.Ys or IC-UIE.Ys orKR-UIE.Ys. 24) A computer-implemented system according to claim 16),whereby FFLN is a “Substantive Patent Law, SPL” or a “SubstantiveCopyright Law, SCL”. 25) A computer-implemented system according toclaim 16), whereby FFLN is a conjunction of FFLNs. 26) Acomputer-implemented system according to claim 16), whereby its FFLN isaugmented by the user preserving its finite FOL property. 27) Acomputer-implemented system according to claim 16), whereby therepresentation of the user input provided to the IES may be identifiedby the user by either selecting such a representation from a given setof such representations or by describing it in a given notation. 28) Acomputer-implemented system according to claim 16), whereby the outputrepresentation to be used by the IES may be identified by the user byeither selecting such a representation from a given set of suchrepresentations or by describing it in a given notation. 29) Acomputer-implemented system according to claim 16), whereby the inputinto a HI-UIE.Y is automatically generated by the IES—what the contentand the representations shall be of the LAC.Z, representing part of thetransformation of a given AST on an I/O device of the IES—whereby saidrepresentation is given by the IES implementation or to the IES by auser in some given notation. 30) A computer-implemented system accordingto claim 16), whereby its Action A) is begun by “the IES automaticallyprompts the user to enable UIE.Ys to present in B) for any AST in PTR-DSits peer automatically generated LAC.Z in realtime mode—to invoke o. theIES to repeatedly automatically identify in PTR-DS anothernon-translated AST and execute with it i.-iii.:”